Global Data Governance Manager

Cencora; Zaragoza; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a Data Governance Manager to shape and advance governance across the International Business Group, spanning multiple countries and business units. You will map capabilities, identify gaps, and develop a practical roadmap to strengthen governance, ownership, and responsible data use.

You will partner with in-country teams to drive change management, training, and adoption of governance practices while ensuring data quality, privacy, and compliance across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, data management, statistics, business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data governance or data management.
• 2+ years of experience in a matrix management capacity.
• Fluent English language skills.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks, metadata, lineage, and data quality practices.
• Experience across multiple countries, business units, and stakeholder groups.
• Ability to assess current maturity and translate findings into practical improvement plans.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and change management skills.
• Certifications such as CDMP, CGEIT, CISA, CIPP, CIPM (preferred). DCAM/CDMC preferred.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, logistics, or other regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess current data governance maturity across IBG countries and business units.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap to improve data governance capabilities across the organization.
• Coordinate governance councils, working groups, policies, standards, and decision tracking.
• Define and support data ownership, stewardship, critical data elements, and business glossary standards.
• Oversee data quality rules, monitoring, issue remediation, and closure tracking.
• Support metadata, lineage, and data catalog practices in partnership with platform and technology teams.
• Help manage governance controls related to access, privacy, retention, and ethical use of data.
• Partner with in-country teams to drive change management, communication, training, and adoption of governance practices.
• Provide leadership and guidance to cross-functional and local resources supporting the data governance agenda.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Change management

Leadership

Communication

Matrix management

Cross-country collaboration

Maturity assessment

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, data management, statistics, business, or a related field

Job description

Cencora is seeking a Data Governance Manager to shape and advance governance across the International Business Group, spanning multiple countries and business units. You will map capabilities, identify gaps, and develop a practical roadmap to strengthen governance, ownership, and responsible data use.

You will partner with in-country teams to drive change management, training, and adoption of governance practices while ensuring data quality, privacy, and compliance across the organization.